Youth Development Practitioner Apprenticeship (YDPA)
The YouthBuild USA Youth Development Practitioner Apprenticeship (YDPA) certificate program increases professional development opportunities for youth workers and, as a result, improves the quality of youth work that YDP apprentices offer to the young people, young adults in YouthBuild Programs and the younger people that programs serve through community service programs.The program is also designed to increase Staff retention at YouthBuild Programs.
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Green Careers with Eagle Eye
This project is being carried out in partnership with Eagle Eye Institute, a nonprofit organization providing access to hands on exploratory learning on environmental topics and career bridging to natural resource fields for urban people with an emphasis on underserved urban youth. With the support of an anonymous foundation we are building the capacity of six Massachusetts YouthBuild programs to institutionalize a career development pathway into the green industry using arboriculture as the focus.
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Criminal Justice Re-entry Project
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) selected YouthBuild USA to participate in a major national demonstration of YouthBuild programs' efficacy in bringing down the recidivism rate of ex-offenders. All reports to-date find that the recidivism rate for ex-offenders who complete the YouthBuild program is a stunningly low 15 percent – this compares to a national recidivism rate of 67 percent. YouthBuild students are highly motivated to overcome past mistakes, and in YouthBuild, they gain skills and a supportive community.
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